Tripple Elvis
Many of Warhol's most famous paintings take images of celebrities from popular media as his source. Elvis is based upon a publicity still made from the 1960 film 'Flaming Star'. Elvis in combo boots and gear, pointing a gun instead of swinging a guitar, embodies two American icons; The bad boy star and the stereotypical cowboy. The life size image is printed numerous times on a background covered with silver paint, suggesting both the repetition of film frames and hollywoods's silver screen.
By Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.
What was happeneing in the world in 1963?
1963 The biggest news from 1963 was the assassination of the US President Kennedy on November 22nd which thrust Lyndon Johnson into the role of president and the murder two days later of Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. This was a difficult time to become president with the mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had now killed 80 American Advisers and the continued campaign for civil rights by the black community caused violent reactions from whites including Mississippi, Virginia and Alabama where the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was arrested.
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